Washington— The session of the 119th US Congress will begin on Friday. However, the Republican Party’s control of both houses of Congress and the presidency faces challenges after a contentious government funding battle last month. The Senate is entering the new session as Republicans have taken the majority from the Democrats and Senator Mitch McConnell … Read more
Days after the Israeli army said it intercepted a missile which crossed into Israeli territory from Yemen on Tuesday, the IDF said it had stopped another such missile early on Friday. Source link
Ghana’s informal economy suffered an enormous blow after a fire engulfed the Kantamanto used clothes market on Thursday, displacing thousands of traders and destroying goods worth millions of the local cedi currency. Source link
A small plane crashed through the window of a commercial manufacturing building in Southern California on Thursday, killing at least two people and injuring 18 others, police said. The incident occurred near Fullerton Municipal Airport, which is 25 miles (40 kilometers) southeast of Los Angeles. “Two deaths have been confirmed,” Fullerton police said on Twitter. … Read more
The suspect in the New Year’s Day terror attack that killed 14 people in New Orleans was inspired by the Islamic State terrorist group and appears to have carried out the attack alone, the FBI said Thursday. In Africa, nearly 500 kilograms of space debris fell over rural Kenya and post-election turmoil continues in Chad. … Read more
The FBI said on Thursday that Matthew Livelsberger, the active duty army soldier suspected of blowing up a Cybertruck outside a Las Vegas Trump hotel on Wednesday, had died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound prior to the blast. The agency is still searching for a motive. Source link
Venezuelan authorities set a $100,000 reward on Thursday for information on Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia, as the exiled opposition candidate, who asserts that he won the Venezuelan presidency from Nicolas Maduro in July, is expected to return to South America from his exile in Spain. Source link
Thousands of people are fleeing Mozambique to neighboring Malawi to escape deadly post-election unrest in the country. The exodus comes after Mozambique’s Constitutional Council last week confirmed the ruling Frelimo party’s victory in the October vote. The opposition condemned the result as fraudulent and the rubber-stamping of the apex court led to violent protests, vandalism … Read more
Nikkei Asia correspondent Steven Borowiec speaks to France 24 on the unfolding situation in South Korea, as investigators began executing an arrest warrant for impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol on Thursday over his failed attempt to declare martial law in early December. Investigators and police were seen moving past pro-Yoon protesters surrounding Yoon’s compound, but … Read more
Seoul, South Korea – South Korean investigators on Friday attempted to detain impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol over his short-lived martial law decree last month, as hundreds of his supporters gathered near his residence in Seoul and vowed to protect him. About 20 investigators from the corruption investigation office for high-ranking officials and police officers … Read more